More than 30 times as far from the sun as earth neptune is the only planet in our solar system not visible to the naked eye.
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Nasa s voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have visited neptune up close.
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In 2011 neptune completed its first 165 year orbit since its discovery in 1846.
It flew past in 1989 on its way out of the solar system.
The position of the planets moons and spacecraft are shown where they are right now.
October 30 1998 this picture of neptune was produced from the last whole planet images taken through the green and orange filters on the voyager 2 narrow angle camera.
The spacecraft was at a distance of 4 86 million kilometers 3 million miles from neptune when these images were.
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In 2011 neptune completed its first 165 year orbit since its discovery in 1846.
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This digital orrery a model of the solar system runs on a light mobile mobile friendly version of nasa s eyes on the solar system software.